Student Limelight 2009 : Space Within A Space


A display of the semester 2 degree students' recent project. Enjoy!

Architecture Design Studio 2

Albee Chiew
Primitive

Site: Batu Caves




I named it as " Primitive", characterized by simplicity, belonging to forces of nature.
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To design a "space within a space", for a 2 person work/ living unit to be built inside the cave at the top of Batu Caves. My idea of 'Primitive' are to avoid over built on the site and to minimize the usage of construction materials, such as concrete, steel bar.

Usage of timber strip as shelter, floor finishes and the information counter. 
 

The intersection between nature and artificial.

Curving form Timber strip to follow the contour of the sloping rock surface on the site.


Dellis Cay Villa - Luxury home

Dellis Cai Villa, designed by Shigeru Ban architect, located in the Caribbean.The following information is from Dellis Cay:Shigeru Ban has created two contrasting designs of Beach Villa for purchase: Maison H and Maison S, both of which come with their own over-water pavilion, Maison O.Maison H is alluringly classic simplicity with its elements centered on expansive living and dining spaces.

There's such a thing?

"Designers, this is your fabric! Newspaper! Paper clothing, the first paper dress was created in 1968! and that was 40years ago!! There’s wide range of paper clothing back then. From paper Dress to paper pants! (Oh don't you dare to wet your pants!) Even paper slippers!"


Tim Gunn



How paper clothing came about? Scott Paper Company used the paper dress to promote their toilet paper and paper tissues. In exchange of $1.25, happy housewives would be mailed a paisley or op-art 'Paper Caper' dress and some coupons to buy napkins and toilet rolls.Demand exceeded the 500,000 garments produced and other manufacturers soon followed with designs to promote their own goods.







Promotional paper dress of Universal Studios with portraits of its stars, USA 1968




In pure '60s Pop culture, you could find one-off paper dresses adorned with portraits of the Presidential candidates and flower-power paper bikinis. Disposable clothing had a very futuristic, 'space age' appeal. As one textile designer stated for Life Magazine, "Who is going to do laundry in space?"


Far from being one-offs to be thrown away, a number of these paper garments can be worn several times thanks to the use of sturdier paper materials such as tyvek, a synthetic paper material.


Every now and then, there are still reappearance for paper clothings.








Martin Margiela, F/W 97-98





Hussein Chalayan, Airmail Dress, 1999. Tyvek dress.


This time on Project Runway season 6. They're throwing off a fabric challenge, Newspaper. It is tough to turn paper functions the same as a cloth that is soft and flexible. Something that is solidified like paper, to make a dress out of it requires much understanding on the material itself and the availability type of construction.



In the end, all the designers came out with their own masterpiece. Good or Bad, judge it for yourself.



















Think of it, are you able to construct an 'eye soothing' paper clothing?

(I know it's not architecture-buildings related, but it involves art and creativity. It also triggers your construction mind on how to deal with papers [I think?])

Underground House - Luxury Home

Underground House, designed by EM2N architect, located in Greifensee, Switzerland.Haus Gross in Greifensee, Switzerland, looks like a typical house by all accounts. But this modern and inventive design proves that looks can be deceiving. This understated, low-profile house holds a buried treasure in the form of an underground living space. The 721-sq.-ft. sub-grade home addition includes two

Interior Design Ideas on Choosing and Arranging Office Furniture Tips

Once you've set up your office furniture, you'll want to monitor how well your home office Interior design ideas are working for you in actual practice. You home office design ideas may have seemed great, but when you go to set up your office at home you might find they really don't work well for you. A few adjustments now will save you grief later. Your work area needs to function efficiently so you can be more productive. Here are several tips on choosing and arranging office furniture:
Interior Design Ideas on Choosing and Arranging Office Furniture
Start bringing furniture into your office space with similar color of wall, floor and another room's decorations, It's best to start with the larger pieces first so you'll still have the maximum amount of floor space to move them around. As you set up your office and bring in furniture, dust and polish it as needed.
Interior Design Ideas on Choosing and Arranging Office Furniture
Maximize the space with special shape furniture, here is the sample, a simple home office furniture on the corner of the room.
Choosing and Arranging Office Furniture
Bring in your home office equipment and place it where it needs to go in the room. As you place each piece, check to see if it needs to be cleaned, oiled, or otherwise serviced, and that all cords are long enough to reach your outlets or power strips.

Bring in smaller furniture to complete the set up of your office at home, such as lamps, organizers and desktop items. If needed, clean or dust them as you place them in the room.
Choosing and Arranging Office Furniture

Interior Design For Bedroom

Contemporary interior design portfolio by SKB Architects

Modern Kitchen Interior Design

Home Office Design Ideas with Fresh and Unique Design for Workspaces

Home Office Design Ideas with Fresh and Unique Design for Workspaces
Create a statement in your office by adding unique interior design elements to the mix. Designing workspaces doesn’t have to be boring or all about practicality. Have fun and bring in fresh design ideas to create a home office ideas that welcomes people into your workspace.
Home Office Design Ideas with Fresh and Unique Design for Workspaces
If at all practical, remove any existing furniture and plants from the room or space that you will set up as your home office. If you're converting a closet, remove all clothing and other items from the closet. This will help you start with a blank canvas that you'll fill in with your home office design ideas one step at a time.
Home Office Design Ideas with Fresh and Unique Design for Workspaces

If you need some remodeling done to accommodate your home office set up, the next step will be demolition to remove existing partitions, shelving, etc. that are not part of your new home office design ideas.
Install any electical, phone or cable outlets, cabinetry, shelving, and/or wall partitions on your plan - ideally while the space is already empty.
Home Office Design Ideas with Fresh and Unique Design for Workspaces
Thoroughly clean and paint, wallpaper, add floor coverings, hang light fixtures, etc. before bringing anything into the new space. Without furniture and equipment to get in your way, this step can be completed much more quickly and easily. However, while you don't want the furniture in the way at this stage of setting up your home office, you'll want to make sure you know exactly where your furniture and equipment will be placed in the room.
Home Office Design Ideas with Fresh and Unique Design for Workspaces

Taylor's College Sports Carnival 2009

Are you a sports aficionado? Ever represented your school or participated in any sports competition? Or simply think you need a workout? Well then, Taylor's SABD wants you!


The annual Taylor's College Sports Carnival 2009 is happening from 5-10 October, with 7 games/sports scheduled to be held. For those who are unfamiliar, this carnival is held yearly amongst the schools of the TCPJ campus, including our very own SABD. Amongst the games scheduled include:

  1. Basketball (10 October, 9am onwards) Venue: Bukit Jalil Golf & Country Club
  2. Badminton (7 October, 5pm onwards) Venue: USJ Hall
  3. Bowling (10 October, 9am onwards) Venue: Bukut Jalil Golf & Country Club
  4. Futsal (6 October, 5pm onwards) Venue: Sports Planet
  5. Netball (10 October, 9am onwards) Venue: Bukit Jalil Sports & Country Club
  6. Table Tennis (9 October, 4pm onwards) Venue: MPH, Leisure Commerce Square
  7. Tennis (5 October, 5pm onwards) Venue: Kelana Jaya


All games are to be played in a grouping format. To further add to the amusement of the event, lecturers & staff from each school will be participating and competing together with the students as well. So if you're interested in representing SABD, kindly email your details (name, student ID, course, which sport you would like to participate in, etc etc.) to Ms. Shereen at shereen.effendy.lee@gmail.com. Slots are currently available for each game at the moment. A selection process will be conducted should it be required. The dateline for registration is next Friday, 25 September 2009. For others, feel free to attend the event at the respective venues to support your coursemates. Go SABD!


House Presenhuber - holiday house

This holiday house is located in the middle of the village of Vnà in the Lower Engadine. The particular challenge of the project was to bridge the divide between the old-world charm of the village and the modern flair embodied in a holiday house for an internationally successful art gallery owner. In urban planning terms, the building closed a permanent gap in the village structure whilst the

Summer House Design, Antique Prefab Wooden House

Summer House Design, Natique Prefab Wooden House
Uncomprimising, original and respect for the landscape, these are the concept of this unique summer house, an antique prefab house with wooden material. Created and financed by Todd Saunders & Tommie Wilhelmsen, this prefab house bring the natural environment to the house.
Summer House Design, Natique Prefab Wooden House

Summer House Design, Natique Prefab Wooden House

Summer House Design, Natique Prefab Wooden House

DesignSpotter Creative Work on Lighting System

Lighting is an important system that can easily make the room beautiful, modern home decoration use vest way to make the room looks elegant, one of them by using a lighting system. Here are several collection of creative work from DesignSpotter on lighting system.
DesignSpotter Creative Work on Lighting System

A spiral staircase with unusual balustrade. Glass Balusters with an inclined top allow for finger clearance and an ideal fixing point for the stainless steel handrail. The glass treads are supported by rolled interlocking stainless steel bracket welded to the pole.

Designer: Geoffrey Packer (United Kingdom)
Manufacturer: (United Kingdom)




DesignSpotter Creative Work on Lighting System

orchid light is a feature pendant / table / floor standing light.
inspired by sensuous orchid flowers, each flower is hand dyed sometimes up to three different times, layering the colours in surprising and unexpected ways. Each light is made to order in 20% any colours you desire!

Designer: marc pascal (Australia)
Manufacturer: marc pascal - m2 products (Australia)
Inspired By: orchid flowers
Material: polycarbonate, stainless steel, Forton
Colours: made to order
Dimension: pendant aprox 110 x 850 x 850mm
Price: AUD 1400


DesignSpotter Creative Work on Lighting System

Pile Light is a lamp shade made from polypropylene which utilizes a curved grid structure with identical pieces of polypropylene attached to each 'window'. Peering through the center of the light is quite extraordinary!

Designer: Christopher Tomoya James (Australia)

Alan-Voo Family House

Alan-Voo Family House in Los Angeles by Californian practice Neil M. Denari Architects.This is a Project Description from Neil M. Denari Architects :The scheme leaves half of the house for the daughter’s bedrooms and incorporates the other half plus new extensions in front and back into a public zone and a private bedroom for the parents.This strategy amounts to a new 16 ft wide linear house

SABD Shirts

We will be distributing them at the COURTYARD next week !!
I'm already excited! HAHA!


Distributions will only be on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday (15, 17 and 18th of September) yeah from 10am till 1pm ! Make sure you're there to collect your shirts and don't forget to prepare small changes kay! It'll definitely make our lives easier if you come with the exact amount xD haha!!

P/s: You guys can collect for your friends too if they're not free to come to us =)


Be sure to collect them kay as the week after is already the RAYA period !

We will definitely keep the shirts for you if you've not collected them...don't worry!!

You could also personally contact us too if you missed the time slots above!

~Marie Jacqueline 0162882721 Architecture, Sem 4
~Ong Li Hui 0163542155 Architecture, Sem 4
~Mabelinda Yang 0128124089 Interior Design, Sem 4


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Giorgia Modern Kitchen with Italian Architecture Style

Here are Giorgia kitchen with Italian Architecture style, the kitchens are used modern and minimalist design, Wenge and dull white laminate, The extraordinary designer hood, the bar handles and the lighting shelf with an aluminum edge give a gritty imprint to this wenge and dull white composition. Below the worktop, several large, deep and highly accessorized drawers are there to remind us that in Giorgia there's no beauty without functionality. Several of these modern kitchen were used for kitchen remodeling, here are the details:
Giorgia Modern Kitchen with Italian Architecture Style

Natural oak and wenge laminate, Color contrasts and plays of volumes are the distinctive features of this composition where the brightness of natural oak is enhanced by the mellow shade of wenge. The wall unit solution is extremely original, the "solid" effect created by dark doors and shelves alternates with the "empty" effect created by the light-colored back.
The wenge equipped columns are brightened up by the embedded ovens.
Giorgia Modern Kitchen with Italian Architecture Style


Glossy white and wenge laminate, glossy orange lacquered glass. In this extremely rigorous peninsula solution, the glossy white and wenge acquire personality thanks to the orange glass wall units. The magnificent hood made of steel and glass is a full-fledged design piece rather than just an appliance, contributing to the "essential-chic" look of the kitchen.
Giorgia Modern Kitchen with Italian Architecture Style

Anthracite and dull white laminate, The geometric perfection of the square and its multiples rules this anthracite and dull white composition. Its peculiar handle decorates the surface of the door. The square shape is also present in the two ovens embedded in the equipped columns and in the white wall units above the gray peninsula equipped with very useful baskets.
Giorgia Modern Kitchen with Italian Architecture Style

Glossy sand laminate, glossy anthracite lacquered glass, A refined sand color, blending wonderfully with anthracite grey, fills with light and reflections the minimalist geometry of this spectacular peninsula composition.
Giorgia Modern Kitchen with Italian Architecture Style

Feng Shui Mantra Bed with Canopy

Feng Shui Mantra Bed with Canopy

A wonderful bed designed by Mauro Bertame' along Feng Shui principles. The base of the bed is very low (Feng Shui recommendation); and the canopy has soft round contours providing a warm embrace. It is covered in a special textile which mitigates the damaging effects of electromagnetic fields. Available in wenge and teak to fit a 160 x 200cm mattress, or in wenge to fit a 200 x 200cm mattress. Mattress not included. --stylehive--

Feng Shui Mantra Bed with Canopy

Feng Shui Mantra Bed with Canopy

Italian Curve-Style Modern Kitchen

Italian Curve-Style Modern KitchenAlign Center

Imagine your home custom fitted with fine Italian cabinetry, finished with the best accessories and beautifully designed to present and store your kitchen system with ease. Think how comfortable, relaxing and eloquent a new Pedini Kitchen environment, fitted with the best fixtures and appliances will feel at the end of your day. This is the Italian curve-style modern design for kitchen remodeling idea from stylehive:

Italian Curve-Style Modern Kitchen